Lively Multispecies Communities, Deadly Racial Assemblages, and the Promise of Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5149262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Kirksey (0000-0001-6067-1525, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 195-206 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-3749614 |
| OpenAlex | W2585579548 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 15 |
Indigenous people from West Papua, a territory under Indonesian rule, are foraging for food in spaces by the side of the road, in the ruins of recently logged forests. Living on the margins of market economies and transportation infrastructures comes with opportunities as well as risks. Emergent ecosystems are teeming with grasshoppers, katydids, praying mantises, and other edible insects, as well as marsupial game animals. Children are finding happiness in the hap of what happens in these multispecies worlds. At the same time, plans by technocrats in distant metropolitan centers to turn nomadic hunter-gatherers into a governable population have gone awry. Infrastructures and modern medical practices protect some people in Indonesia from tropical diseases like malaria, while Papuans die. Black lives matter. But some black lives matter more than others. The case of one black boy who was shot dead along the side of the road in June 2015 while hunting with friends is part of an ongoing process of genocide in West Papua. Race, nationality, and class all help determine who has full personhood before the law. In pursuing the elusive promise of justice in West Papua, indigenous people are pushing back against powerful assemblages and infrastructures, creating the conditions for continued life in multispecies communities
Economic Justice · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Personhood · Political science · Population · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Race, Genetics, and Society
A Space on the Side of the Road
Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice
Blasted Landscapes (and the Gentle Arts of Mushroom Picking)
Sorting Things Out
The Promise of Happiness
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Freedom in Entangled Worlds
Hope in blasted landscapes
A road to freedom; Mee articulations and the Trans-Papua Highway
Specters of Marx
Producing affect
The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |